Old answers for ‘new’ monsoon
Mitigating floods and droughts has only one answer: obsessive attention to building millions and millions of connected and living water structures
We have missed the bus again
Government lost the opportunity of using fiscal signals to discourage polluting technologies and fuels
What Donald Trump's win means for climate change?
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of CSE talks the change in climate change politics after Donald Trump becomes the president of the …
Sunita Narain in conversation with Amitav Ghosh
In his new book, novelist Amitav Ghosh examines our inability-at the level of literature, history and politics-to grasp the scale and violence of …
America’s first ‘climate refugees’ and a vanishing island
The island, which had over 22,000 acres of land in 1955, has lost about 98 per cent of it due to sea level rise, saltwater intrusion and subsidence
Climate Change and Extreme Weather- Beyond Simple Causation: An interview with Krishna Achuta Rao
Krishna AchutaRao is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, IIT Delhi. He talks about the extreme weather events and it's …
Freak Weather and Climate Change 2015: In Conversation with Shreeshan Venkatesh
The year 2015 will be remembered for 'freak weather' events all around the world. Are such events here to stay? A discussion with Science …
'Climate change may render impossible what remains of traditional Inuit life patterns'
Stephen R Bown says 'Father of Eskimology' Knud Rasmussen's writings are literary masterpieces and constitute a priceless contribution to …
International Mountain Day: Highland people to face vagaries of weather, food insecurity
Released on the occasion of Mountain Day, two reports highlight climate threats to high altitude areas
We need to convince the world about 1.5 degrees when there is still a lot of quibbling about 2
J.R. Nereus O Acosta Secretary Office of the Presidential Adiviser for Environmental Protection, Philippine on the new momentum at COP21 to …
'Money in climate fund hardly enough for grassroots programmes'
Lidy Nacpil is the regional coordinator of Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (Philippines)
Increasing ocean acidity will hit the marine food chain, says study
Increasing acidification impacts phytoplankton, which in turn will drastically affect the fish population
I (don’t) care
Poland is not the only problem. Every developed country is now going back on its past commitments
Visible impact
Scientists and policymakers may choose to believe global warming is too remote to worry about, a mere projection by a computer that often can't …
Polarised
Is global warming for real? Is it natural, or human-caused? Who will benefit from its effects? Suffer? The scientific debate on climate change …
Power games at UN climate talks
Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …
World gets a yellow card
The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …
Sonam Wangchuk is right. All is not well with Ladakh’s glaciers
In October 2021, 31 glacial lakes and water bodies showed an increase in area by 20%, found CSE & DTE’s State of India’s …
UN launches 10 principles to close Asia-Pacific sustainable finance gap
Aimed at mobilising and deploying financing for key Sustainable Development Goals, particularly around climate action
Making cities climate-ready crucial to solving climate crisis: World Bank
Cities in rich countries high emitters, but poorer ones will face most severe climate-related hazards, finds report
What WMO report says on climate trends: Drivers and impacts
2015-2021 will be the warmest years on record, the World Meteorological Organization report flagged
Our cities need big funds to fight climate risks: World Bank
The COVID-19 pandemic added strain to cities’ finances in cities in developing countries; the disruption continues to make planning for …
Getting Amazon to pay its taxes could be Jeff Bezos’ biggest climate action
Climate justice demands democratic oversight over efforts to overcome mankind’s biggest challenge
Post-Paris climate: the ‘historic’ Agreement
The absence of the term ‘carbon space’ in the Paris Agreement is a reason to worry as this will hurt India in the long run
Solar alliance to be part of India-Africa Forum Summit
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to announce a global alliance of almost 110 countries to encourage implementation of solar power to …